Quinn puts pressure on MSG and Time Warner Cable

Linsanity has spread to city government. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn fired off letters yesterday to the two top executives of Time Warner Cable and Madison Square Garden, warning they’ll face a public grilling if Knick and Ranger games aren’t restored to more than 2 million blacked-out cable subscribers. “It has been reported that discussions between the two sides have recently taken place for the first time in nearly two months,” Quinn wrote MSG Chairman James Dolan and Time Warner CEO Glenn Britt. Read More: New York Post

Al Sharpton’s SUV impounded at La Guardia Airport

The Rev. Al Sharpton tried to move heaven and earth yesterday to keep his SUV from being towed at La Guardia Airport — but no amount of preaching could stop Port Authority cops from impounding the vehicle. An officer rolled up on the 2008 Lincoln Navigator at around 2 p.m. outside the Delta and US Airways terminal as the MSNBC host’s driver waited to pick him up in a clearly marked “no standing” zone, said PA Police spokesman Al Della Fave. Read More: New York Post

Former Met Gary Carter succumbs to brain cancer

Forever known as “the Kid,” former Mets catcher Gary Carter died at 4:10 p.m. on February 16 after battling brain cancer. He was 57. A key cog on the Mets’ 1986 championship team, the man best known for his leadership and clutch hitting was diagnosed with the disease after doctors discovered inoperable tumors on his brain in May 2011. After an MRI revealed new tumors in January 2012, his condition worsened. Read More: Queens Courier

Mets Fans Mourn Former Catcher Gary Carter

Gary Carter’s hit with two outs in the 10th inning of game six of the 1986 World Series started the comeback against the Red Sox, which led to the ball rolling through Bill Buckner’s legs. The rest is history. “The Mets would not have won the world series in 1986 were it not for Gary Carter,” said WFAN host Ed Randall. “He was a hero to so many people,” said one New Yorker. Read More: NY1

Whitney Houston was on downward spiral in months leading to death: report

Whitney Houston’s downward spiral began months before she was found lifeless in a hotel bathtub, a new report says. Sources told Star magazine that the pop icon had spent the last three months of her life boozing, using cocaine, taking pills and partying. “The last three months of Whitney’s life were truly tragic,” one source told the tabloid, which published the report on Radar Online Friday. Another source reportedly said that Houston got “buck wild” at the Playhouse nightclub in Hollywood on Jan. 2. Read More: Daily NewsBone marrow donors sought for 6-year-old son of New York City firefighter, stricken with leukemia

He helped protect the city and now a retired Brooklyn firefighter hopes the city will turn out Saturday to help his dying 6-year-old son. Kevin Flood, a retired firefighter from Engine 210 in Fort Greene, was part of the search and rescue mission at Ground Zero after 9/11 that sickened so many of his colleagues. He is in fine health. But his son, Colin, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia the night before Christmas. Read More: Daily News